Meeting minutes for 27 October 2009

DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes
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The DITA Technical Committee met on 27 October 2009 at 08:00am PT for 60 
minutes.

Chaired by Don Day <>
Minutes recorded by Gershon Joseph <>


Roll call
> Quorum was achieved.


Approve minutes from previous business meetings: 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00116.html (20 October 2009, Frankland)
> Minutes approved by acclamation.


Subcommittee/liaison reports (as needed)

* OASIS DITA for Enterprise Business Documents Subcommittee
  > Michael Bose updated the TC: 
  > Posting today for TC review a white paper proposing abstract versions of the
  > base DITA topic types. 
  > The idea is to discuss the proposal for possible adoption in future DITA 
  > releases (likely 1.3)


ITEM: 1.2 Issue: Glossary Group Topic Type Not Included in ditabase 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00238.html (Kimber) 
* Resume with Eliot present 

> Eliot: The issue is the glossgroup element type is not included in the 
> ditabase shell. On email, nobody disagreed that this was an oversight.

> DECISION: Add glossary group to the existing ditabase shell. 
> [Jeff moved. Eliot seconded. No objections.]


ITEM: Audience of Arch Spec 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00002.html (Hackos)

> JoAnn noted that the spec's audience includes less technical users. Some 
> parts of the current spec are written more towards this audience than others.

> Gershon mentioned that some topics can't easily be made accessible to these 
> non-technical audiences and suggested the Adoption TC works on text books to 
> address this gap.

> Kris: We can't have the spec be for all audiences. Also, we've now integrated 
> content from lang and arch spec plus various SCs, and each has its own writing
> style. I suggest we handle this in 1.3 to try to hide the fact the spec is 
> being written by multiple contributors. We would need to do much more editing
> than we've done in the past.

> Don suggested the audience definition should be a concern for the 1.3 
> editorial effort. At most for 1.2 take a look at the "intended audience" 
> topic.

> Jeff: We need to flag, while reviewing, topics that we could write better -- 
> any topic that's difficult to read in its current state should be questioned 
> to ask whether that's really necessary and we should address these in the 1.2 
> scope.

> Dick offered to review these topics and provide feedback about "problematic" 
> topics.

> Need to review the new terminology topic and determine what we want to push 
> forward into the wider spec, and what we want to remove or write around at 
> this time.

> Kris mentioned there are review comments that contain conflicting ideas about 
> vocabulary.

> Don suggested a meeting of interested folks to work up a proposal to bring 
> back to the TC.

> ACTION: Kris to set up the meeting and drive this forward.
> ACTION: Add this item to the review tracking items and close this item.
> CLOSED (rolled up into spec review)


New ITEM 13 Oct: documentation of conref restrictions 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00050.html (Nevin) 

> Don suggested passing this on to the editors.

> Jeff: The conref inclusion section should include a comprehensive discussion 
> of this. Doing this is a good idea.

> Bruce agrees the content inclusion topic may be a good place to bring all 
> these issues together.

> Don: Someone needs to read all of the topics Bruce mentioned and figure out 
> how best to move the information into a central location, cleaning up the 
> other topics as they go along.

> ACTION: Bruce and JoAnn to harvest the conref constraints and do the research,
> compile what they can and bring it back to the TC.


New ITEM 13 Oct: Element-by-element recommendations for translators 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00065.html (Hackos) 

> Mark this as a comment rather than an issue. 
> JoAnn asked Robert where in the lang ref this should go. 
> Move to end of agenda items list next week.


*** Meeting Adjourned ***